Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-03-26
AGNES F0LS0M'S Choice,
IL Was One That Brought Grief
and Tears.
Ine Young Actress Giving up
FAMILY and Career.
a Visit to Her Old Home in
Richmond.
Especial to the Kennebec journal

kennebec. and unusually so free from ex.
chement is much stirred by the story O,
Miss Agnes Folsom which has been so widely
sPread IN the newspapers. Every one re.
members her as she left the town in 1880
then but II years of age, pretty winsome
demi-blonde, plump and symetricsl in figure.
the idol OF her relatives. She studied for the
operate stage and for three years was at the
Casino in New York City. Everybody who
saw "Erminie". there last wear remember,
Agnes Folsom. Everybody remembers when
the curtain rose on the delicate, ethereal,
and glittering beauty of the pink ball room.
how Javotte came forth in her snow hite
wig, her pretty dress of pink blue and cream
color. and sang her mezzo song of pirlisb
coquetry to Simon. She had come with only
her face and voice and her goodness to find
a career and it came quickly.
Wednesday night at 2O9 West Fsrty.,hird
street, New York, feeble, pale and almost
broken-hearted woman told the rest of the
story. She was Agnes Folsom's mother.
Her voice broke every now and then At
times it seemed as if she could tell no more.
for she would weep uncontrolably at the ago.
nzing thought of her poor little girls misery
and shame. Little bv little it all came out.
and such story! The mother wished piti
fully that her little girl had never left the
fireside; wished pittifully, perhaps, though
she would not say it, that the little girl had
never been born.
Last spring Agnes fell sick of pneumonia
and DR.. VIM. McCate, doctor who had been
recommended to the family. was called ir.
He seemed an excellent doctor and under his
treatment she recovered. This was the be-
ginning of their acquaintance. He seemed
to take great interest in Agnes and desired
to take her out driving The driving took
place two or three times week. Nothing
wrong was suspected as they always returne d
home in time for dinner. One night they
were away all night long and Agnes did not
return home until in the morning The
doctor said one of the horses had fallen in fit
This was the beginning however of a closer
dbN SloSSt WIN Tic uOCtOT
and a gradual rendering of the ties which
bound her to her home. When Miss Folsom
left her mother to live elsewhere DR.. Cate
left the Barrett House, where he had been
living, and went to live elsewhere, too. The
doctor told Mrs. Folsom when questioned
ab out his wife and child in Cape Cod, Mass,
that he ha separated from his wife.
This affair resulted in the sundering of the
relations between Agnes and her affi Anced,
William j. Baldwin, who is coal dealer in
Brookin. In colloquy between Agnes
Cate and Baldwin, the doctor struck the lat
ter, knocked him own and choked him till
he was black in the face.
At her mother splicitation Agnes agreed
to accompany her to Boston on visit to hel
father, Henry M. Folsom, who is a ship
broker there. They reached Boston on a
Thursday in the latter part of September
The next morning Agnes received telegram
which proved to be bogus one, calling her
to New York. In response to this Agnes
started that afternoon for New York. HeI
father thought nothing wrong OF it until the
following Tuesday, when Mrs. Folsom came
to the office in cab, greatly excited, to tell
him that they must 60 al once to New York
They departed and the next morning went to
Gates office. While there the doctor and
Agnes came in together. Agnes said there
WAS nothing wrong she simply wanted the
doctors advice.
They failed to get her address, however
and the next day, when the father called or
tn, doctor to get it the latter begged his par
don. but Miss Folsom had requested him tt
give it to no one Mrs. Folsom went to Bos
ton heartbroken over the conduct of her little
girl. For % weeks she kept her bed. Re
naming in Boston for while her relatives in
Richmond brought her home and here she re-
NAMED, loving hands and hearts ministerine
to her wants. Nothing was known about the
affair here and it was simply announced that
Mrs. Fulsom was at home ill. When she
had recovered she did not call on several in
innate friends as was her wont when at home.
Some six weeks ago she returned to New
York and gentleman we'll acquainted Win
The family says that lie knew nothing of her
departure and was not aware until day or
two that she had left the town.
She discovered where her daughter was
living. at 33S, West 5Sth street, but was re-
fnsed admttance there. She then took a
room in Hotel Gladstone, whose windows
commanded her daughters residence, and
watched She saw, the following Sunday,
the doctor leave the house in company with
Agnes. Then. with her lawyer, William d.
Mundy. she made second call at the mouse.
Mrs. Masterson, the landlady. was out. The
hell was answered by a girl and the mother
walked by her and went up the stairs, in
spite of. her protestations. As she opened
the front bedroom door on the first floor her
daughter, who had heard the talk ana rec
ognized her, ran into the bedroom IN the
rear. which is Gates. The mother followed,
and when Mundy reached the top of the
stairs, the daughter was endeavoriag to push